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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

all it has is the tgz files. including, apt, and dpkg. i was wondering if anyone used this? cuz it'd be great to be able to use apt, and install real deb files (without converting) from the hundreds of debian mirrors. software galore!!!

i'm just concerned about what apt-get dist-upgrade might do on a slack system....

I tested and it's real crap (I'm sorry). As the dependency system works based on a database of installed .deb packages, if you try to install anything like xmms you'll get a message saying that you need to install just everything from the base system 'till your KDE. You would need to start the whole system from scratch with .deb files.... not gonna work at all!!! if you wanna do that get debian yourself

kept giving me errors about mmap no room or something like that. searched through some forums, and told me to add some line to my apt.conf. did that, still didn't work. from that point i was like screw it...this wasn't meant to be. uninstalled it.